The Louisville at Pittsburgh ACC rematch was all that and extra Saturday as Pitt received in an epic reverse sweep.
NCAA Event bids have been claimed by UMBC, FGCU, Delaware, Yale, LIU and Grand Canyon.
The recaps and prime performances comply with, however first a have a look at Sunday’s NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball schedule, which guarantees to be a extremely enjoyable day with NCAA bids to be claimed within the Atlantic 10, Large South, Convention USA, MAAC, MEAC, Horizon, Patriot, Southland, Solar Belt, SWAC and SoCon.
Within the ACC, Tenth-ranked Georgia Tech is residence for Syracuse, AVCA No. 25 Florida State is at North Carolina, Wake Forest is at Virginia Tech and Clemson is at Duke.
There are two Large Ten matches involving the highest two groups — the final they play earlier than enjoying one another subsequent Friday — when top-ranked Nebraska goes to Iowa and No. 3 Wisconsin goes to Indiana.
The Pac-12 has a full slate with No. 2 Stanford at AVCA No. 24 USC, No. 5 Oregon at Arizona, No. 12 Washington State at Utah, No. 16 Arizona State residence for Oregon State, Washington at Colorado and Cal at UCLA.
Within the SEC, the place No. 8 Kentucky holds a one-game lead over No. 9 Tennessee and No. 10 Arkansas, Kentucky is residence for Missouri, Tennessee is at Texas A&M, Arkansas is residence for AVCA No. 20 Florida, Alabama is at Georgia, LSU is at Auburn and Mississippi State is at Ole Miss.
For Sunday’s full schedule and with viewing hyperlinks to each match, go to the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.
PITT PREVAILS: Pittsburgh (23-4, 14-2) not solely avenged getting swept at Lousville (23-4, 14-3) six weeks in the past, the Panthers set a house attendance file as they received 19-25, 24-26, 26-24, 25-21, 17-15.
The group of 8,865 within the Petersen Occasions Heart noticed a handful of career-high performances on either side, beginning with Pitt’s Torrey Stafford, who had a career-best 21 kills. She hit .439 and had two assists, three blocks and 11 digs. Olivia Babcock led Pitt with a career-high 23 kills — 5 with no errors in seven assaults within the fifth set — an ace, two blocks and a personal-best 12 digs. Valeria Vazquez-Gomez had 15 kills, three assists and 10 digs. Rachel Fairbanks had two kills in 5 errorless tries, a career-high 58 assists, an ace, 19 digs and two blocks, one solo. Her crew hit .265.
Louisville, which led 14-13 however couldn’t shut out, hit. 315 and misplaced the match on back-to-back hitting errors. Anna DeBeer had a career-high 29 kills — six within the fifth — whereas hitting .404 to go along with an help, two blocks and 17 digs. Charitie Luper had 24 kills, hit .327, and had three assists, two blocks and 13 digs. She had two service errors within the fifth set. Elena Scott had 24 digs, 5 assists and an ace.
The one ACC match of the day left Pitt tied with Florida State atop the SEC standings and Louisville a recreation again within the loss column.
BIG TEN: Purdue (19-8, 13-5) had no hangover from beating Wisconsin the day earlier than because the AVCA No. 16 Boilermakers swept visiting Maryland (16-14, 6-12). Eva Hudson led with 18 kills, an help, an ace, three blocks and 7 digs … No. 15 Penn State (19-8, 13-5) swept visiting Northwestern (13-15, 7-11) as Jess Mruzik had 15 kills, hit .364 and had an ace, a block and eight digs … Illinois (16-12, 11-7) swept visiting Michigan (7-20, 5-13) behind 17 kills by Raina Terry, who hit .400 and had three aces, two blocks and 5 digs … Minnesota (15-11, 11-7) swept visiting Ohio State (10-17, 7-11) and Michigan State (17-12, 9-9) received in 5 at Rutgers (10-18, 2-16) as 4 gamers had 12 or extra kills, 17 by Taylah Holdem.
BIG 12: Seventh-ranked Texas (21-4 16-1) swept at UCF (17-10, 8-8) as Madisen Skinner had 20 kills, hit .341 and had a block and 4 digs … AVCA No. 23 Baylor (15-12, 9-8) hit .493 and swept visiting West Virginia (9-20, 2-14). Baylor had 42 kills with 5 errors in 75 swings. Elise McGhee led with 13 kills … Kansas State (6-10, 10-7) swept visiting Texas Tech (10-18, 3-13) … Oklahoma (10-16, 3-13) received in 5 at Cincinnati (12-14, 5-11), 15-5 within the fifth. Lydia Burts had 17 kills and hit .484 to go along with an help, two aces, 5 digs and 6 blocks, one solo.
NCAA bids clinched
9 of the 32 automatics bids have claimed, three by regular-season league championships, by SMU within the American Athletic, Texas within the Large 12 and Pepperdine within the West Coast. Six extra have been received in conference-tournament finals Saturday:
AMERICA EAST: High-seeded UMBC (17-7) swept third-seeded Binghamton (15-13) 25-19, 25-16, 25-18. The Retrievers didn’t permit greater than 19 factors in both of their sweeps en path to profitable the title and so they hit .350 towards Binghamton. Mia Bilusic led with 13 kills, two aces and three digs.
ASUN: High-seeded Florida Gulf Coast (26-6) swept second-seeded Lipscomb (21-8) for its second straight title. Skylar Engish led with 10 kills within the 25-11, 25-21, 25-20 victory. Ella Chapmand had 9 kills with one error in 13 assaults and 5 blocks.
CAA: Second-seeded Delaware (24-4, 15-3) knocked off Towson (24-6, 16-2) with its program-record fifteenth win in a row. Lani Mason led with 20 kills within the 25-22, 22-25, 25-23, 25-17 victory and had two assists, 4 blocks and 10 digs. This would be the first NCAA journey for the Blue Hens since 2011.
IVY: Yale (21-3) not solely received its seventeenth in a row, the Bulldogs clinched their second straight NCAA journey with a 25-22, 25-23, 21-25, 25-19 victory over Brown (19-7). Audrey Leak led with 20 kills, hitting .333. Mile Yarich had 15 kills, an help, an ace, 22 digs and two blocks, one solo. Maile Somera had 25 digs, 4 assists and an ace and Carly Diehl had two kills in eight errorless tries, 56 assists, two blocks and 15 digs.
NEC: Fourth-seeded LIU (13-18) knocked off two increased seeds, this time beating second-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson (14-17) and can go into the event regardless of a dropping file after profitable 25-20, 21-25, 25-14, 25-13. Camilia Melendez led the Sharks with 15 kills and Amaris Smith had 13.
WAC: Grand Canyon (23-7), which misplaced each regular-season matches to Stephen F. Austin (29-4), got here away with a 25-18, 20-25, 29-27, 25-18 victory for its first WAC title. The Lopes, who will make this system’s first NCAA look, have been led by Tatum Parrott, who had a career-high 30 kills, hitting .303, to go along with an help, an ace, 19 digs and two blocks, one solo. Klaire Mitchell had three kills in 5 errorless tries, 49 assists, a block and 25 digs.
SFA had received 18 in a row.
Across the nation
ATLANTIC 10: Dayton (30-2) performs Loyola Chicago (19-11) for the NCAA bid. Dayton received its twenty fifth in a row, a sweep of Saint Louis as Taylor Russell had 20 kills, an ace, 4 blocks and 4 digs, and Lexie Almodovar had 18 kills, two assists, three aces and 22 digs. Dayton has received 30 matches for the fifth time because it joined Division I in 1984 and first since 2016. Loyola, which has received 17 in a row, beat VCU in 4.
CONFERENCE USA: High-seeded Western Kentucky (29-4) received its semifinal match over UTEP 25-23, 25-15, 21-25, 15-25, 15-5 and can play NM State (21-9) within the last. The Aggies beat FIU in 4. WKU, which has received 23 in a row, hit an uncharacteristically low .205. Pagie Briggs led with 18 kills, an help, two aces, 12 digs and two blocks, one solo. NM State hit .402 and bought 15 kills from Ryleigh Whitekettle, who had one error in 17 assaults to hit .824 and had two digs and three blocks.
HORIZON: The ultimate pits top-seeded Wright State (20-10) towards No. 2 Inexperienced Bay. Wright State swept Cleveland State whereas Inexperienced Bay needed to go 5 to get previous Northern Kentucky. Callie Martin had 15 kills with no errors in 27 swings for Wright State to go along with 5 blocks and 5 digs, and Sam Ott had 14 kills with no errors in 27 assaults, two blocks and 9 digs. Hannah Vanden Berg led Inexperienced Bay with 22 kills, two assists, an ace, two blocks and eight digs.
MAC: Motion continues with semifinals as Western Michigan performs Toledo and Buffalo performs Bowling Inexperienced. Click on her for the MAC Championship web site.
MEAC: High-seeded Coppin State (26-4) performs No. 2 Howard (17-13) for the title at 8:30 p.m. on ESPNU. Coppin State sweptt UMES as Laila Ibrahim had 11 kills, hit .421 and had 5 blocks, to make her this system’s all-time blocks chief. Howard hit .371 and swept Delaware State as Jennifer Bolden had 13 kills with one error in 21 assaults and three blocks.
SOCON: Fourth-seeded Samford (16-14) swept No. 1 The Citadel and third-seeded Wofford (22-7) swept seventh-seeded Chattanooga and can play in Sunday’s last. Samford’s Kaleigh Meritt had 14 kills, two aces, a block and 10 digs and Gracie Lynn Butler had 13 kills, an help, two solo blocks and 13 digs. Wofford had six gamers with six or extra kills.
SOUTHLAND: High-seeded Southeastern Louisiana (27-4) performs second-seeded Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (22-9) for the title. Southeastern, which has received 21 in a row, beat HCU in 4 as Kailin Newsome, who had 12 digs, and Cicily Hidalgo had 18 kills every. Hidaldo hit .368 and had two assists, 15 digs and three blocks, two solo. TAMUCC swept McNeese as Kyndal Payne had 14 kills, 10 digs and two blocks, one solo, and Leah Stolfus had 12 kills, hit .345, and had 4 blocks, two solo.
SWAC: Alabama State, which went 16-0 within the common season and received the title by three video games, was upset in 4 by fifth-seeded Jackson State (16-12). JSU will play third-seeded Florida A&M (18-13), which knocked off second-seeded Prairie View in 5. Alexis Williams had 27 kills for JSU to go along with an help, three aces, three blocks and 20 digs. FAMU bought 18 kills from Brooke Lynn Watts, who had 12 digs.
SUN BELT: The 2 prime groups from the East will play for the title after top-seeded Coastal Carolina (21-9) swept South Alabama and James Madison (21-8) bought previous Texas State in 5. Coastal overcame South Alabama’s Hannah Maddux, who had 25 kills, an ace, 5 digs and 4 blocks. JMU’s Sophie Davis had 23 kills, hit .455, and had an ace, seven digs and 6 blocks, two solo. Within the common season in mid-October, Coastal swept visiting JMU after which day beat the Dukes in 5.
BIG EAST: The common season finishes Sunday when No. 14 Creighton performs host to Butler. Marquette went up a half-game on the Bluejays on Saturday by sweeping Seton Corridor … Georgetown received in 5 at Windfall as Mary Grace Goyena had 18 kills and Peyton Whilhite had 17 … UConn beat Villanova in 5 as Emma Werkmeister had 17 kills, an help, an ace, 5 blocks and eight digs … St. John’s received in 4 at DePaul behind 19 kills from Erin Jones, who had 5 assists, two aces, a solo block and 9 digs.
BIG WEST: The common season ended with first-place UC Santa Barbara sweeping UC Riverside as Michelle Ohwobete had 14 kills, hit .444, and had an ace, two blocks and 9 digs … In Hawai’i’s four-set win over visiting Lengthy Seaside State, Amber Igiede had 21 kills, hit .432 and had 4 blocks and three digs … UC Irvine received in 4 at CSU Bakersfield … Cal State Fullerton received in 4 at CSUN as Lyla Traylor had 15 kills, hit .303 and had a block and 12 digs … Cal Poly beat visiting UC Davis in 5.
BIG SKY: Sacramento State (20-10, 13-3) received 24-26, 25-22, 24-26, 25-15, 15-13 at Montana to win the regular-season outright.
AMERICAN ATHLETIC: SMU, which already clinched, swept North Texas. Memphis beat visiting Temple in 5 as Temple’s Taylor Davenport had 28 kills, hitting .373, to go along with two aces, seven digs and a block.
